Mossad Head: Mission Not Over Until Iran Regime Falls

The head of Mossad said Tuesday the Israeli spy agency will not rest until Iran’s oppressive theocratic regime is overthrown and replaced with one that poses less of a threat to the world. “Our mission is not yet complete,” Mossad Director David Barnea said during a Holocaust memorial ceremony at the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.

Mossad’s role in the campaign, he said, will end “only when this radical regime is replaced. The regime that wants to destroy us must disappear from the world,” he said of Iran’s leadership, which has avowed to destroy Israel. Regime change in Iran, Barnea said, “is our mission. We will not stand by, watching, in the face of another existential threat.”

Barnea also responded to critics who argued the operation failed to achieve all its objectives after President Donald Trump declared a two-week ceasefire on April 7. “We did not think this mission would be completed the moment the fighting subsided,” he said. “But we certainly planned for our campaign to continue and to be expressed in the period following the strikes in Tehran. Our commitment will be fulfilled only when this extremist regime is replaced. That regime, which seeks our destruction, must pass from the world.”